The young (18) and promising interior tricolor “is still not recovered from an injury contracted during the season with ASVEL”, reports the FFBB.
The Blues began their 2022 campaign and preparation for the Euro this Friday, at Insep. Victor Wembanyama has finished his. Summoned to Vincent Collet’s expanded list, the new Boulogne-Levallois player was to take his first steps in Blue this summer, or even participate in his first major international competition at EuroBasket (September 1-18). Alas, the French Basketball Federation (FFBB) tells us that “the young French talent is still not recovered from an injury contracted during the season with his former club ASVEL. He is therefore forfeited for the summer 2022 campaign.“. Bad weather for the 18-year-old tall staker (2.19m), “one of basketball’s greatest hopesaccording to his new Mets coach, a certain Vincent Collet.
«After having sent his last medical examinations to the medical staff of the French team, and after an exchange between the player’s doctor and the doctor of the national team, it was agreed that it was not possible to integrate Victor Wembanyama in the preparation of the Blues for the EuroBasket“Says the” federated “in its press release, adding that coach Collet has no plans to replace the former Asvel player. At least, notfor the moment».
Until further notice, the Blues, who landed at Insep this Friday to start their summer campaign with the traditional battery of medical tests, are reduced to 16 in number. from Sunday, in Nanterre. It is also at the Palais des Sports dear to Pascal Donnadieu, one of Vincent Collet’s assistants, that the Tricolores will answer questions from journalists on Tuesday, during the press briefing to launch the summer 2022 campaign. , the France team, deprived of Nicolas Batum and Nando de Colo but with Evan Fournier and Rudy Gobert, will play six preparation matches, including that of August 24 at Bercy against the Czech Republic, during the qualifiers for the 2023 World Cup .
First pick in the 2023 NBA Draft?
Vice-world champion last year with the France U19 team and silver medalist with the Bleuets U16 in 2019, Victor Wembanyama, who passed through Nanterre 92 before joining Asvel last summer, is one of the most observed young talents of the basketball world. Many specialists announce him in first place in the 2023 NBA Draft. It would be a first for a French player. To see if his repeated injuries can harm him …
With these debuts scheduled for next year in the North American league, it will therefore probably be necessary to wait until 2024 to see him make his debut in the France A team. A campaign which should bring the Blues to the Paris Olympics and which will perhaps score – be the great debut of Joel Embiid under the orders of coach Collet, who knows… The Cameroonian pivot of the 76ers has in any case recently obtained French nationality. In the meantime, the national coach will have to rely on a contingent of interiors made up of Moustapha Fall, Rudy Gobert, Mam Jaiteh, Amath M’Baye, Vincent Poirier and Gerschon Yabusele to aim for the stars in Germany. If the future is promised to Wembanyama, the present is for them.
